End terrorist safe havens, Obama tells Pakistan

The US has made it clear to Pakistani leaders that all terrorist safe havens must end, President Barack Obama said on Monday.

Addressing members of Indian parliament, he also said — to thunderous applause — that the terrorists behind the Mumbai terrorist attack of 2008 should be brought to justice.

“We will continue to insist to Pakistan’s leaders that terrorist safe havens within their borders are unacceptable, and that the terrorists behind the Mumbai attacks be brought to justice,” Obama said in his address to Indian MPs in the Central Hall of Parliament complex.

He said the world needed to recognise the importance of a stable and prosperous Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Obama said the Pakistani government increasingly recognised that extremists were a threat to the Pakistani people as well. “They have suffered greatly at the hands of violent extremists.”